[Nhcoll-l] [External] Old Croone Day 2021

[Randy Singer]

It's always a pleasure when I get to spend Croone day with SPNHC folks.

Thanks for the history and poetry as usual John!

Randy

On Fri, Jun 4, 2021 at 7:14 PM Lance McBrayer <
lancemcbrayer at georgiasouthern.edu> wrote:

> Hear hear!
> I like to think that 150 years later (1815-1820) that Old Croone’s
>  academic descendants celebrated the advancement and enjoyed an IPA similar
> to that that I am enjoying, only much milder as was the style.
>
> Many thanks, Dr. Croone and those that had the nerve to add more hops!
>
> lm
>
> On Jun 4, 2021, at 11:48 AM, John E Simmons <simmons.johne at gmail.com>
> wrote:
>
> 
>
> *Old Croone Day, 04 June 2021*
>
>
>
> There was once a man, William Croone,
>
> Whose specimens deteriorated too soon.
>
> But using spirits of wine,
>
> He found they did fine,
>
> Which we celebrate each 4th of June.
>
>
>
> Old Croone Day is an international holiday to celebrate the first recorded
> mention of the preservation of scientific specimens in alcohol, which took
> place on 04 June of 1662. On that momentous occasion, Dr. William Croone
> (1633-1684) showed his fellow members of the Royal Society of London “two
> embryos of puppy-dogs, which he had kept eight days, and were put in spirit
> in a glass-vial sealed hermetically.” Croone was a founding member and
> secretary of the *Royal Society of London for Improving Natural Knowledge*,
> the oldest scientific society in the world. Ironically, his name was
> misspelled as Croune in the meeting records (see below).
>
>
>
> Croone, a graduate of Cambridge University (Emmanuel College), variously
> served as a professor of Rhetoric at Gresham College, a physician, and an anatomy
> lecturer while pursing diverse interests in physics, physiology, and
> embryology. It was Croone’s interest in entomology that led him to discover
> the possibilities of fluid preservation in spirits of wine (ethyl alcohol).
>
>
>
> Let us join together to celebrate the spirit of curiosity and scientific
> inquiry with a glass of your favorite beverage and a toast the preservation
> of good friendships while basking in the pleasure of finding things out.
>
>
>
> Here’s to you, Dr. William Croone!
>
>
>
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>
>
> --John
>
>
> John E. Simmons
> Writer and Museum Consultant
> Museologica
> *and*
> Associate Curator of Collections
> Earth and Mineral Science Museum & Art Gallery
> Penn State University
> *and*
> Investigador Asociado, Departamento de Ornitologia
> Museo de Historia Natural, Universidad Nacional Mayor de San Marcos, Lima
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